Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century.
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Conrad von Bolanden. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century.
PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. THE AMBUSCADE
CHAPTER III. THE CHANCELLOR RINALDO
CHAPTER IV. THE BATTLE
CHAPTER V. AFTER THE VICTORY
CHAPTER VI. THE COURT FOOL
CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER
CHAPTER VIII. THE ABBOT CONRAD
CHAPTER IX. FILIAL DEVOTION
CHAPTER X. THE TEMPTER
CHAPTER XI. THE JOURNEY
CHAPTER XII. THE TOLL
CHAPTER XIII. CASTELLAMARE
CHAPTER XIV. THE SIEGE
CHAPTER XV. THE ANTI-POPE
CHAPTER XVI. THE EMPEROR'S SLAVE
CHAPTER XVII. AN EVIL SPIRIT
CHAPTER XVIII. CONFIDENTIAL SECRETS
CHAPTER XIX. THE CONSULS
CHAPTER XX. THE ASSAULT
CHAPTER XXI. THE EMPEROR'S POLICY
CHAPTER XXII. VANITY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MEETING
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WALK
CHAPTER XXV. THE CAPTURE
CHAPTER XXVI. TREACHERY
CHAPTER XXVII. THE BETROTHAL
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE POPULACE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XXIX. HUMILIATION
CHAPTER XXX. AMUSEMENTS
CHAPTER XXXI. AT RIVOLI
CHAPTER XXXII. ALEXANDER'S AMBASSADOR
CHAPTER XXXIII. A WARNING
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE DIVORCED DUCHESS
CHAPTER XXXV. LAON
CHAPTER XXXVI. KNAVERY
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE SPY
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE QUEEN OF FRANCE
CHAPTER XXXIX. UNDER THE OAKS
CHAPTER XL. A TRUE BISHOP
CHAPTER XLI. A HARDENED SINNER
CHAPTER XLII. THE ABBEY OF CLUNY
CHAPTER XLIII. IN THE CLOISTER
CHAPTER XLIV. POPE ALEXANDER III
CHAPTER XLV. A KNAVE'S STRATAGEM
CHAPTER XLVI. THE SERMON
CHAPTER XLVII. THE DUEL
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE TRIUMPH OF FORCE
CHAPTER XLIX. HERMENGARDE'S CONSTANCY
CHAPTER L. THE CONSPIRATORS
CHAPTER LI. THE TRIBUNE
CHAPTER LII. SEDITION
CHAPTER LIII. BARBAROSSA IN ROME
CHAPTER LIV. THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
CHAPTER LV. THE HAND OF GOD
CHAPTER LVI. CONCLUSION
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Towards the middle of the 12th century, Milan had conquered for herself a powerful supremacy throughout all of Upper Italy, and with the exception of the proud Genoa and the maritime Venetian republic, all the cities of Lombardy acknowledged her sovereignty. Lodi, Pavia, and some few of the neighboring towns, had made bold attempts to assert their rights, but all their efforts were unsuccessful; and had only resulted in riveting more tightly their fetters, while the pride of the Milanese, and a desire for more extended power, increased in proportion to the failing strength of their adversaries. The majority bore in silence the yoke which they could not shake off preferring the advantages secured to them by prompt submission to the danger of losing in the unequal struggle every vestige of their former independence.
Lombardy, it is true, was an appanage of the Germanic empire, but the sovereignty of the Emperor was almost nominal, and only acknowledged by the turbulent Lombards, when forced so to do by his victorious arms; and whenever a war broke out between the Monarch, his great feudatories, or the Church, the smouldering embers of rebellion at once burst forth into open insurrection.
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"Certainly! friend Lanzo."
"Then, may Heaven forgive me, for I have led a worthy abbot to the tent of a fool."
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